This program was originally broadcast March 20, 2014. Jonathan Swift wrote “Gulliver’s Travels” and blistering satire on human nature. He’s relevant again. We’ll bring back Jonathan Swift.

Jonathan Swift’s “Essay upon the Art of Political ... ADVERTISEMENT Swift often wrote of satire as holding up a mirror or magnifying glass to reality. Before Swift, the word “satire ...

Still, Morrison is not inclined to solve Jonathan Swift. Part of the appeal of Swift is that he is “a moving target”. If the spirit of his satire is something similar, upending conventional ...

Readers might dismiss the unbalanced Gulliver, but he is only saying what Swift’s uncompromising satire insists is the truth about humankind. In many ways Jonathan Swift is remote from us ...

"Gulliver’s Travels" is the most famous work of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and is a satire on both human nature and the "traveler’s tales" that were then in vogue. Born in Dublin on 30 ...

Three centuries ago, Jonathan Swift described the horrors ... But such juxtapositions are revealing. Swift's satire escapes many readers: What appears to be a misogynist view of women is really ...